Word: blinks
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...efforts. I fear, however, that in about five years the Americans are going to regret that we did not begin in the early '90s to use our greatest force to oppose Islamist extremists. Cherry Bethea El Dorado Hills, California, U.S. Those Snap Decisions Columnist Joe Klein's "The Blink Presidency" [Feb. 28] persuasively captured George W. Bush's tendency to pursue both domestic and foreign policies on the basis of "instantaneous, subconscious decision making." Unfortunately, this is the same tendency that characterizes addicted gamblers. But the stakes, as in the Iraq fiasco, have turned out to be devastatingly high...
...Rank’s actions drew an angry reaction from the already wary Bright Hockey Center Crowd—and from captain Noah Welch, who was on Rank in the blink...
COLUMNIST JOE KLEIN'S "THE BLINK Presidency" [Feb. 28] persuasively captured Bush's tendency to pursue both domestic and foreign policies on the basis of "instantaneous, subconscious decision making." This is an unfortunate tendency. The stakes, as in the Iraq fiasco, have turned out to be devastatingly high for our entire country, tarnishing our image abroad. And if Bush gets his way regarding the "crisis" in Social Security, it will be another dangerous gamble for the American people...
...study published last week in the Journal of Vision reports that our visual system seems to parse faces as it does words: by their component parts--eyes, nose, lips. The beauty of the brain is that it can assemble those parts into a familiar face in the blink of an eye. --By David Bjerklie
...Rank’s actions drew an angry reaction from the already wary Bright Hockey Center Crowd—and from captain Noah Welch, who was on Rank in the blink...